Quotes about Possession
If only it were possible to love without injury—fidelity isn't enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.
— Graham Greene
Because I couldn't bear the thought of her so much as touching another man, I feared it all the time, and I saw intimacy in the most casual movement of her hand.
— Graham Greene
My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.
— George Muller
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
— LM Montgomery
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
— LM Montgomery
The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To believe the promise of Jesus that his followers shall possess the earth, and at the same time to face our enemies unarmed and defenseless, preferring to incur injustice rather than to do wrong ourselves, is indeed a narrow way.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.
— Ernest Hemingway
The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.
— Lewis Carroll
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.
— Albert Einstein
The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.
— Donald Trump